A Wigner molecule at extremely low densities: a numerically exact study
Abstract
In this work we investigate Wigner localization at very low densities by means of the exact diagonalization of the Hamiltonian. This yields numerically exact results. In particular, we study a quasi-one-dimensional system of two electrons that are confined to a ring by three-dimensional gaussians placed along the ring perimeter. To characterize the Wigner localization we study several appropriate observables, namely the two-body reduced density matrix, the localization tensor and the particle-hole entropy. We show that the localization tensor is the most promising quantity to study Wigner localization since it accurately captures the transition from the delocalized to the localized state and it can be applied to systems of all sizes.
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@article{arxiv.1907.02421,
title = {A Wigner molecule at extremely low densities: a numerically exact study},
author = {Miguel Escobar Azor and Léa Brooke and Stefano Evangelisti and Thierry Leininger and Pierre-François Loos and Nicolas Suaud and J. A. Berger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.02421},
year = {2020}
}
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Resubmission to SciPost 8 pages, 3 figures